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By Dawn Scotland\nSojourner\u2019s Truth Reporter<\/p>\n
By Dawn Scotland
\nSojourner\u2019s Truth Reporter<\/p>\n
The Toledo Museum of Art held a private concert featuring award winning singer- songwriter John Legend Friday evening October 22 in the Museum\u2019s Art Gallery. The event, entitled \u201cArt Meets Legend,\u201d featured the artist pairing his famous songs and covers alongside notable artwork to an audience of sponsors, community members and local children.<\/p>\n
Adam Levine, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, opened the event and introduced the night. \u201cI see Toledo tonight at Toledo\u2019s Museum of Art,\u201d Levine said. The event was the first of its kind. It featured the artist singing with spotlighted artwork throughout the gallery and was co-presented with TAPA (Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts).<\/p>\n
\u201cSo excited to be with you in here in this beautiful place\u2026 and just enjoying your company.\u201d Legend opened the night with \u201cMade to Love\u201d followed by a cover in Legend\u2019s signature style to the Beatles\u2019 1969 hit \u201cHere Comes the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n
The non-stop 11-song serenade featured songs \u201cSave Room,\u201d a new single \u201cNever Break\u201d from his recent album \u201cBigger Love,\u201d the song \u201cLove Me Now,\u201d and a surprising cover of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cDancing in the Dark\u201d (1984).<\/p>\n
His breakout 2004 hit \u201cOrdinary People\u201d was met with a singalong from the audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreen Light\u201d and \u201cConversations in the Dark\u201d were also followed by hearty applause.<\/p>\n
The night offered an intimate concert in the museum\u2019s Art Gallery that sat about 400 attendees including about 40 local school aged children from the community as a part of the museum\u2019s outreach effort. The children were from Junction Coalition, Englewood neighborhood, Art Tatum Zone, the Frederick Douglass Community Association, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Ebid Institute and YWCA. Tickets were also given to first responders.<\/em><\/p>\n While the first half of the concert featured a man and a piano, the last two songs featured special local guests.<\/p>\n Legend was accompanied by the Bowling Green State University String Quartet during \u201cAll of Me\u201d and the concert ended with Bowling Green State University\u2019s choir singing \u201cGlory,\u201d the Grammy award winning song from the 2014 civil rights film \u201cSelma,\u201d to a standing ovation.<\/p>\n The event was sponsored by ProMedica, the Dana Corporation, Rita B. Kern Foundation, Craig and Amy Findlay, Brent and Pam Cousino, Cynthia and Ron Thompson, Bowling Green State University and the Greater Toledo Community Foundation. While the event is the first of its kind, the museum plans to have more events like it in the near future.<\/p>\n BGSU Choir<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dawn Scotland Sojourner\u2019s Truth Reporter The Toledo Museum of Art held a private concert featuring award winning singer- songwriter John Legend Friday evening October 22 in the Museum\u2019s Art Gallery. The event, entitled \u201cArt Meets Legend,\u201d featured the artist pairing his famous songs and covers alongside notable artwork to an audience of sponsors, community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[82],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12147,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/12147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Art-Tatum-Zone-Youth.jpg\")